THE MOROCCAN WAR
UI«T£ALIAN AND N.Z. CAJU.C ASSOCIATION. BRITAIN KEEPING CLEAR. LONDON*. July 10. The “Daily Express.” lrotn a confidential message cabled yesterday understands that the Government has despatched an unequivocal reply to Spain’s request for joint defensive operations agaimn the Kids, intimating that she cannot agree, to send troops to Ttiugiers. It is considered that the Rill's have no- intention <>f invading the neutrality of this territory, iittv any measures such as those contemplated would merely provoke them. The Note depreciates the joint !• rnucoSpanish action with the same object. It states that Britain could not. countenance any proposals to draw a coidon round'the southern frontier of Tangier, it also declines the proposals That the tribes at Tangier should be disarmed. It urges that the rcpnrls el smuggling are insufficiently well-founded to warrant drastic- action. British operations will. therefore, he confined to assisting in policing the territorial waters of Tangier.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1925, Page 2
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